DateTime.UtcNow Property
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
The resolution of this property depends on the system timer.
| System | Approximate Resolution |
|---|---|
| Windows NT 3.5 and later | 10 milliseconds |
| Windows 98 | 55 milliseconds |
Starting with the .NET Framework version 2.0, the return value is a DateTime whose Kind property returns DateTimeKind.Utc.
An alternative to using UtcNow is UtcNow. While the former indicates that a date and time value is Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) by assigning DateTimeKind.Utc to its Kind property, the latter assigns the date and time value the UTC time's offset (equal to Zero).
Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC, Windows Mobile 2003 for Smartphone, Windows CE Platform Note: In Windows CE, time is specific only to the second. You can get a more precise time span measurement, for example, in milliseconds, by using the TickCount property.
The following code example uses the SpecifyKind method to demonstrate how the Kind property influences the ToLocalTime and ToUniversalTime conversion methods.
Windows 98, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows CE, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows Mobile for Pocket PC, Windows Mobile for Smartphone, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition
The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 is supported on Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 SP1.